Douglas Spelman was a student at Harvard University in 1972 when he learned that a Chinese ping-pong team would visit the United States that spring. The PhD student of history and East Asian languages, who was then taking time teaching a course on China at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, wanted to get involved.
The 2014 Leadership and Business Conference was held on Thursday evening in Washington. Hosted by the International Leadership Foundation (ILF) and the Coalition of Asian American Business Organization (CAABO) and closing with the ILF Awards Gala in the evening, the conference invited Asian American business and community leaders, members of Congress, high-ranking officials and young leaders from across the straits.
North of the Hamptons on Long Island is a place called Lavender by the Bay in East Marion, New York, home to a lavender farm that attracts a large number of Chinese visitors.
As half-Chinese, half-German descendants growing up in a predominantly white suburb of Boston, Ursula Liang and her brother had never experienced much of their Chinese-American roots until they discovered 9-Man, a popular form of Chinese volleyball played in Chinatowns across North America.
One year ago, 20 students from China came to the United States to pair up with 20 counterparts in Connecticut to learn more about entrepreneurship and the global economy. Next week, the 20 Connecticut students will go to Shanghai to do the same thing.
The biggest things on a preteen's mind normally revolve around family, friends and school. Life for Awonder Liang, an 11-year-old from Madison, Wisconsin, is no different. Except that he is the youngest National Master in the 75-year history of the United States Chess Federation (USCF).
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